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Program Notes – Gold Coast Jazz Series May 8, 2024

Added: by Brian Lynch

Brian Lynch Quintet

Brian Lynch – trumpet, flugelhorn, leader 

Marcus Strickland – tenor saxophone

Martin Bejerano – piano

Chuck Bergeron – bass

Jacob Smith – drums

Welcome to the show! Tonight’s performance with this wonderful all-star band will feature a program taken from albums released or upcoming on my Hollistic MusicWorks label. A plurality comes from the two albums released to date in my Songbook series, where I reclaim my original compositions released on other labels throughout my career in new and improved renditions. Selections from my “Unsung Heroes” project, saluting under appreciated trumpeters that have influenced me, and music from two upcoming releases (my 7x7by7 project, out in late summer, and an upcoming big band continuation of the Songbook series) round out tonight’s program. 

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Brian Lynch News – New Year’s 2024

Added: by Brian Lynch

Happy New Year, Everybody!
Despite foreboding feelings and much queasiness over our broken, accelerating world, hurtling towards who knows what treacherous curves, I am resolved to 1) go see “Ferrari” at the first opportunity, and 2) have a good year, somehow, some way! Music is really important at all times, and certainly so in unsettled ones. I intend to be making some in the best way I can, and as often an as much as possible.

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Announcing Brian Lynch’s First Big Band Album – The Omni-American Book Club

Added: by Brian Lynch

Hello All,

It’s been quite a while since I’ve reached out to you directly. I try to keep folks informed of my doings as much as possible via the various conduits of social media as they unfold, but the sort of organized recounting of past events that goes into a newsletter has seemed be too daunting for me amidst the onrush of new ones. There comes a time, however, when the personal urge to share something important, so exciting that I’m almost bursting to let you all know about it, demands that I stop and take the time to communicate….

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